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Research project: robotic table tennis, ball interception (in progress)

ETF Robotics Laboratory, University of Belgrade

• Gazebo setup on franka_ros (ROS 1 Noetic); MoveIt interceptor within 1–2 cm of the predicted contact point but too slow, so developing a nonlinear MPC (CasADi/IPOPT, acados).

Selected participant

PSIML, Practical Seminar in Machine Learning

• Action-conditioned video world model: LoRA fine-tuning of Wan2.1 on BAIR robot pushing; 84.8% direction accuracy on 256 held-out scenes.

Robotics Research Intern

ETF Robotics Laboratory, University of Belgrade

• IL/RL policies for cable insertion in Isaac Lab for the AI for Industry Challenge (Intrinsic & Open Robotics).
• OpenUSD scenes and a containerized ROS 2 / Gazebo sim-to-real environment.
• BSc thesis: 30,290 demos, ACT vs. Diffusion Policy data-scaling study (lateral error is the main obstacle; 3.5× lower with more data: 41.2 → 11.8 mm).

Teaching Assistant (lab sessions, 4 undergraduate courses)

School of Electrical Engineering, University of Belgrade

MSc (M2)

École Normale Supérieure (ENS) Paris-Saclay

Mathématiques, Vision, Apprentissage (MVA)

• French Government Scholarship (BGF)
• Fall courses: Robotics · Convex Optimization · Probabilistic Graphical Models & Deep Generative Models · Optimal Transport for ML · Foundations of LLMs

BSc

University of Belgrade, School of Electrical Engineering

Electrical Engineering and Computing, Signals and Systems

• Thesis: Limits of Imitation Learning for High-Precision Manipulation (advisor: Prof. Kosta Jovanović)
• Selected courses: Robotics & Automation · Autonomous Mobile Robots · Control Systems 1 & 2 · System Modeling & Identification · Stochastic Systems & Estimation · Neural Networks

Creating a virtual environment to bridge the gap between simulation and reality in robot assembly tasks

Proc. LXX ETRAN Conference, pp. 173–177 (in Serbian)

French Government Scholarship (BGF)

Government of France

For the M2 MVA at ENS Paris-Saclay.

3rd Place, Play With IT Agri-Bot Hackathon (team lead)

Embassy of Italy, Belgrade